Unlocking Argo CD’s Hidden Tools for Chaos Engineering - Featuring VCluster and More

The presentation discusses the scalability of Argo CD and the importance of separating concerns to minimize blast radius. The speaker also introduces the Sig Scalability project and encourages audience participation.

• Argo CD is scalable but it's important to separate concerns to minimize blast radius
• Sig Scalability is a project aimed at improving the performance of Argo CD and the speaker encourages audience participation
• The speaker demonstrates the scalability of Argo CD by syncing all apps from the internet
• The speaker also discusses the Argo CD certification program

The speaker demonstrates the scalability of Argo CD by syncing all apps from the internet and warns against deploying Bitcoin miners into the cluster. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of separating concerns to minimize blast radius and avoid affecting production apps.

Running large scale GitOps operations with Argo CD is not only possible, but very fun! With almost every cloud-native tool there are pain points that come with scale, bumps that need to be planned around, or settings that need to be made. What if there was a way to easily simulate and plan out your large scale rollout so you could head off any issues before they happen? In this session, an Argo Maintainer will show you the hidden tools inside Argo CD that make this kind of performance testing easy and how different scenarios change the way you scale with Argo CD along with the tweaks and things to look out for. We’ll irreverently break Argo by hammering it with vCluster, apps, resources, and show dangerous misconfigurations that could cause chaos – and how to fix them! Plus, how to simulate users creating chaos in a GitOps environment.